Health  Mr. Speaker, we are going to continue to enforce border measures, including a mandatory 14-day quarantine or isolation period for travellers entering Canada. Any changes to public health measures, especially testing and quarantine requirements, must be supported by strong scientific evidence.

Health  Mr. Speaker, we are deeply concerned by the outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities. We are working with provincial counterparts closely, and PHAC released guidance for facilities on how they can protect their residents from COVID-19. Under the safe restart agreement, we are providing $740 million for measures to control and prevent infections, including in long-term care.

Health  Mr. Speaker, as we have said in the House numerous times, testing is one of the most important tools we have for responding to COVID-19. We are working around the clock to review and approve new testing technologies, and I can tell the member that rapid tests are arriving daily and being moved across the country daily.

Health  Mr. Speaker, again, we are approving tests on a regular basis. We are receiving tests on a regular basis. We have our own process through Health Canada. We rely on our own testing data. We have our own approvals process. From the beginning, we have had faith. We have followed science and data in our response to COVID-19, and we will continue to do so.

Health  Mr. Speaker, as we have said, we know the importance of having quick access to test results. We are fast-tracking the review of COVID-19 tests across the country, including rapid response test kits. We will continue to work with the provinces and territories to ensure that the people who need to be tested are able to be tested and will get these rapid tests.

Health  Mr. Speaker, early diagnosis is critical to slowing and reducing the spread of COVID-19 in Canada. We have made emergency changes to allow faster access to COVID-19 tests in Canada. Through the safe restart program, we have provided billions to provinces to help them build their capacity.

Health  Mr. Speaker, we have said from day one that testing is one of the most important tools we have to respond to COVID-19. We are working around the clock to review and approve new testing technologies every day. We have already approved several of these tests, and we can expect more as the technology develops.

Business of Supply  Madam Speaker, Canadians want to know that their government and public servants are focusing 100% of their efforts on keeping them safe during this pandemic. They want to know that we are making every effort to strategically secure PPE, that we are working hard to make sure that when a vaccine is ready, every Canadian will have access to it, and that we are helping the provinces keep kids safe at school.

Health  Mr. Speaker, our government is pursuing every technology and every option for faster tests for Canadians from coast to coast to coast. As soon as tests are approved for safe use in Canada, the government will do everything it can to see them deployed. Health Canada undertakes a regulatory review of all new testing solutions as they become available and is working with companies across Canada and internationally to ensure rapid tests that are safe and effective are available in Canada as soon as possible.

Health  Mr. Speaker, testing is a critical part of Canada's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and rapid tests are a key tool in our government's testing and screening strategy. Early in the pandemic, our government put into place mechanisms to allow Health Canada to carry out expedited reviews of testing devices through the interim order respecting the importation and sale of medical devices for use in relation to COVID-19.

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia  Mr. Speaker, we have heard hours and hours of debate tonight. We take very important comments like that from this particular member and we have to see them side by side with comments all night long from opposition members saying that our government is bad and they are good, or they have done well and we have not done well.

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia  Mr. Speaker, as always, there is a lot packed into the member's questions. I will touch on COVID. Canadians are scared, and when Canadians are scared, they respond differently. A lot has been said tonight about the speech and the comments made by the member for Sydney—Victoria.

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia  Mr. Speaker, the member for Cape Breton—Canso spoke before me. He said something that strikes home with me on a regular basis. He said that we had come a long way. We had accomplished a lot. We have probably accomplished more. The member for Sydney—Victoria, who is a Mi'kmaq parliamentarian, said that we had done more for reconciliation than any other government, ever.

Lobster Fishery Dispute in Nova Scotia  Mr. Speaker, I want to begin by acknowledging that I am here in Mi’kma’ki, on the unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq peoples. I am not far from the Shubenacadie waterway that has been used by the Mi'kmaq for thousands of years. Although I know that issues surrounding the Nova Scotia fishery are deeply personal to all involved, I want to be very clear when I say that I am disgusted by the incidents of racism and violence in southwest Nova Scotia.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I know the Audrey Parker situation so well and I want to thank the member for putting those words into Hansard one more time, because they are so important as it pertains to Bill C-7. I wonder if the member could tell me her personal opinion on whether the bill provides the level of safeguards that the Canadian public will be comfortable with and need?